Providing PlayStation Devices

A child patient's stay in hospital leaves them feeling lonely, isolated and bored — especially children with cancer, tumours and liver disease and those receiving organ transplants. By providing some recreational equipment and devices we help the child overcome that isolation; these facilities are also an opportunity to bring them together with other children who share the same illness and treatment, which in turn speeds their recovery.

Child patients, both inpatients and outpatients, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre – Riyadh and King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer.

• King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre – Riyadh.
• King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer – Riyadh.

SAR 448,000.

• Making children happy and taking their minds off illness, boredom and refusing treatment.
• The need to strengthen children's emotional health and to enrich the recreational and psychological side of their hospital stay, so that their treatment plan works better and their often gruelling treatment journey becomes easier.
• Lifting the morale and spirits of children with cancer, tumours and liver disease and organ transplant recipients — which helps them recover faster — and bringing delight and joy to the hearts of child patients.
• Instilling hope of recovery in child patients and standing by their families.

• The Centre's capacity is (400) beds with (100%) occupancy throughout the year.
• Around (50,000) children visit the Centre each year as outpatients and inpatients.
• Around (100) PlayStation consoles were provided for distribution across the hospital's various facilities.